Nexus Calendar // Archive 2014

Conference // International Conference on Emerging Challenges in Business for Global Sustainability (SIIBICON 2015), Pune/India

The Conference will aim to deliberate and discuss on business related issues revolving around sustainability, geopolitical impacts around global trade mechanisms, agriculture, land use, water and energy nexus, climate change and its linkages to development. Focus themes would include emerging market mechanisms that provide transformative solutions including potential game changers in business and industry.

Summit and Exhibition // International Water Summit, Abu Dhabi/UAE

The International Water Summit (IWS) is a global platform for promoting water sustainability in arid regions. IWS brings together world leaders, field experts, academia luminaries and business innovators to accelerate the development of new sustainable strategies and technologies.

Hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Corporate Citizenship Center, this roundtable pinpoints the nexus risks to businesses, and examines why and how leadership from the private sector, in collaboration with key stakeholders, is critical to successfully manage the synergies and tradeoffs among water, food, and energy infrastructure for the benefit of society, business, and the environment.

Green breakfast : Christmas climate special

This autumn series of Green Breakfasts will feature four leading international scientists from Oxford University, from a former Director of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider to the Chair of a Royal Society Future Earth group.

The Regional Roundtable aims to assist in the achievement of the SEE 2020 strategy objectives. It is the first step in a process to introduce and catalyze action for the Water, Energy, Food and Ecosystems Nexus approach as means to enhance integrated and sustainable management of natural resources and assist towards climate change adaptation. The Roundtable is organized in the framework of the South East Europe (SEE) 2020 Strategy, the Petersberg Phase 11 /Athens Declaration Process, the UNECE...

Senior-level Forum // "Global Forum on Environment: New Perspectives on the Water-Energy-Food-Nexus", Paris/France

The OECD Global Forum on Environment will focus on three areas that can contribute to more integrated policy-making. Topics for discussion will include the need to improve knowledge of the interactions between the different dimensions; how to send the right policy and price signals to users and financiers; and how to plug the nexus into the broader development agenda, particularly in the context of post-2015 discussions.

The Nexus Network // "What works at the nexus? New connections in food, energy, water and environment", London/UK

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